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...past couple of weeks, three of Bush's top men--chief of staff Andrew Card, Secretary of Health and Human Services Tommy Thompson and political adviser Karl Rove--have been working to find a compromise that would suit both the pro-research community (represented by Card and Thompson) and the evangelical interests (which Rove is worried about upsetting). The three weren't having much luck to begin with, but last week the opposing sides dug in. The announcement that the Virginia institute had created embryos just to get their stem cells--and news the very next day that a Massachusetts...
GORAN IVANISEVIC Wild card Balkanizes Wimbledon. Croatia can now root for someone other than war-crime indictees...
...company for more than two decades. The list of targeted pilots was kept secret. Some of the pink slips were sent by courier, but not all. "One guy reported to work because he had a long-range flight that night," says John Findlay, the union representative, "and his access card to the building didn't work." Another pilot on a layover in Los Angeles got the bad news on a 2 a.m. wake-up call. "They just started picking selected people," Findlay says, "so that when the word goes around to other pilots, it would instill fear in them." (Among...
...squeeze began in January when President Jiang Zemin's propagandists tore a page from international football rule books and set up a "yellow card system." Publications must now gain permission from regional propaganda departments to cover seven forbidden topics, including the military, religion and the private lives of China's leaders. One violation means a yellow card. Two yellow cards means sacking editors; three, and the publication closes. It may sound childish, but the change is vast. In the recent past, newspapers have increasingly been publishing freely and risking the consequences. To enforce the new system, Beijing has let local...
...After all, this is America we're talking about - we raise our children to shop. And if Mr. And Mrs. Smith use that $600 to do something ant-ish like put it in the bank, invest it, or pay off credit card bills (generally a better deal than investing anyway), won't the money find its way out eventually? Admit it - savings is fleeting, investments make somebody else feel rich enough to spend, and credit card bills that go down by $600 tend to go back up by $800 before long. We're all grasshoppers at heart - that...